Patents by Inventor Yansong J. Ren

Yansong J. Ren has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Manager component resource addition and/or resource removal on behalf of distributed software application
    Patent number: 7406678
    Abstract: A distributed software application comprises a plurality of software components within a plurality of executables. A manager component for the distributed software application handles: an addition of one or more first resources to the distributed software application on behalf of the distributed software application and/or a removal of one or more second resources from the distributed software application on behalf of the distributed software application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Weilin Gong, Oscar J. Gonzalez, Li Kuang, Tim T. Liim, Sunil K. Mishra, Pravish Prabhakar, Yansong J. Ren, Muhammad A. Siddiqui
  • Substitute manager component that obtains state information of one or more software components upon failure of a first manager component
    Patent number: 7386556
    Abstract: An apparatus in one example comprises a substitute manager component that upon failure of a first manager component, obtains management responsibility for a distributed software application from the first manager component and queries one or more software components of the distributed software application for state information of the one or more software components. The substitute manager component employs the state information to determine whether one or more recovery actions are needed for the distributed software application to recover from the failure of the first manager component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Richard W. Buskens, Oscar J. Gonzalez, Li Kuang, Tim T. Liim, Sunil K. Mishra, Yansong J. Ren, Muhammad A. Siddiqui